I have never sent my son out to play in the snow in pink snowboots! Recently I did NOT let me 3 year old son wear a bike helmet covered in flowers because he had out grown his. He was quite oblivious and just glad to be riding his bike, but his 5 year old sister yelled from across the yard, “You can’t wear that helmet! It’s for a girl!” Such is life in a large family. By the time you get to child 4 or 5, who cares if it’s pink. If it fits, wear it!

In December the movers came and packed up all of our stuff in Connecticut and drove it to our new home in Mississippi. Meanwhile we loaded our van and started driving down ourselves. We made it about halfway before getting seriously snowed in in Virginia. Where was the giant pile of snow gear? On the moving truck in balmy Mississippi. Of course.

Awww he’s such a cutie! My own 2 1/2 year old son “did not” wear too-small The Little Mermaid swim diapers into the hotel pool the other day because it’s been so long since and so rare that we ever swim that all I had was the leftover half a pack of girly swim diaps from when his older sister was a baby…